Freelancing Tech Art Part-Time: A Few Dos and Don'ts

In this 2022 Technical Artist Summit session, Stray Kite Studio’s Taylor Wright details a dozen dos and don'ts to keep in mind when starting out and growing a freelance technical art business based on years of experience and learning the hard way, with particular emphasis on what makes freelancing tech art different than other freelancing.
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[@artemisDev]

Blender is great

[@richardjecooke8036]

So is git. What's with this guy's prejudice

[@lidiamp]

Problem is nobody is really sure, specifically HR, what TAs are. Seriously. It's terrible. So probably half of those demanded jobs are NOT TA jobs.

[@LeonardoFlammia]

work - do's and don'ts working in office with a contract doesn't exist anymore

[@nyankrauss]

That-one-blender-guy done a good job in his quest of converting CG pagans into holly FSF😄

[@MacSmithVideo]

20k sounds low, but there is no mention of amount of work done.

[@marcovidaurre1995]

The Crack Fox slide really hit home

[@FranciscoSciaraffia]

Awesome talk, very timely :D

[@klang_jm]

Yes, Blender is a nice artist tool, but when working with it as a tech artist (especially when trying to integrate it into a pipeline), it's just a pain. Broken normals, messed up blend shapes, end joints sometimes become null objects on export, dealing with fbx in general...their exporter is a mess. I completely and 100% understand Taylor there

[@novaardent4528]

anyone who actually knows a good tech artist, knows that a good tech artist makes more than an engineer.

[@cybershellrev7083]

I'm great with unreal but Blender is absolute cake, i'm not gonna posh laugh with the party here... I think blender is the best way to learn and even preview shader nodes since the compiling is instant while unreal takes a long minute to compile just to preview it.

[@albertamalachi3560]

Blender Guy: "Wololo!"

[@JenAnty_JA]

Wow, I had the same experience this year, and even more

[@autentikum]

Great talk, lots of usable info! Thanks!

[@ishwarlohar2555]

Really quality talk love it 🧡

[@xThemczombiex]

I feel like it's kinda weird to be freelancing the same occupation while you already have an interesting and high paying job. Why not focus on other things, or if you still want to do tech art work, do work for yourself rather than a client?

[@creeper20ps]

Ya right? Maybe he's at a stage of his career that his technical skills are so good. That finishing tasks in his fulltime job are done so fast. That he has time for freelance gigs? I don't think he ever said he had no time for other things, from what I remember watching this.